Is a Nanny State progressive who once wore an R on his voter registration card.
Allow me to answer your assertion that pushing healthy foods is the government’s highest duty, Mayor Bloomberg: if you wouldn’t dare try to take my snack cakes away from me on the street — knowing, as you must, that I’d likely knock you down and take your lunch money — you shouldn’t be able to use the power of government to do it, either.
I am a free man. You are a member of a representative government. Sadly, you seem to think that because you’ve acquired wealth and then conned people into voting for you that you are some sort of super moral conscience of the nation.
You aren’t. You’re a putz with a title and some cabbage. Don’t overthink things, Mayor, or you’ll find that the American people will wake up and remind you of your own very obvious limitations.
Common defense? Meh.
Establishing post offices? Pfft.
Keeping too much salt out of my organic pro-biotic tofurky? Hells yeah, boy! There’s a function of government.
$18B says Bloomie doesn’t care much, JG. A NYC constituency probably clinches the apathy.
Some American people, unfortunately, will clamor for Nanny Bloomberg to save them from the awful burden of responsibility for their actions.
And he’ll be more than happy to oblige.
Me, I just want someone to save me from The Terrible Secret of Space.
Love the sentiment, just thought I’d expand the recipients. Something classical liberals have been saying for years, too. Liberty over security.
FWIW, Bloomie has relinquished the R, just as he relinquished the D before that. But we’re still talking about the party that nominated John McCain, whose personal hero was the first progressive POTUS. We’re talking about the party that sure is thinking about nominating Mitt Romney. We’re talking about the party rife with “compassionate conservatism” which in the end is neither compassionate nor conservative.
The choice is nor R or D. The choice is liberty or tyranny “for your own good”. The choice is good or evil. Evil is winning.
Yeah, Pablo. That’s the point .
Limbaugh just said of Christie’s speech, “I heard a lot of McCain in that speech.”
There’s a reason the establishment is begging him to get in. Frankly, it’s been disgusting to watch — and reminds me of the idolatry over Obama.
Being fat is a disease?
Hmmm… I wnet back and looked at my oath, the one I took when commissioned as a officer in the US Army, and what do ya know… “…against all enemies, forgeign and domestic, and to insure that healthy and non-harmful foods are upon every table…”
Wow, should have read that closer, before I raised that right hand, huh?
LTC John: I always took you for a sap.
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Next up for the Nanny State: swimming pool drains!
They’ve decided that improved drain covers are insufficient, because they might fail or get installed wrong. Never mind that smaller municipalities can’t afford the expense of upgraded drain systems, and will close, so kids A) won’t get swimming lessons, and 2) will go swimming in unsupervised swimming holes, both of which will cause far more drownings than drain accidents could ever dream of. I can only assume that this means they’ll be banning car seats next.
I like her.
Revrit!
Or whatever it is that Gabby Johnson said every time he agreed with something that someone said.
(in Blazing Saddles, for those that don’t get the reference)
[…] I thought that proper food socialization and nutritional enforcement was the “top government priority.” Seriously. You government types need to pull your […]